Angela Anderson

Angela Olga Anderson is a German artist, filmmaker, and exhibition designer. She has done exhibition design for the Forum Expanded program at the Berlinale Film Festival. Anderson's work as an artist and filmmaker explores themes of ecology, economics, migration, and feminist and queer theory. She lives and works in Berlin.

Early life

Anderson received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Latin American Studies from the University of Minnesota (2006). She obtained her Master of Arts in Film and Media Studies from the New School in New York City (2010).

That same year, Anderson was included in Voices Outside the Echo Chamber, a group exhibition that also featured work by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ólafur Ólafsson, and Banu Cennetoglu, among other artists. The exhibition aimed to explore the concept of "echo chambers," particularly in the context of online filter bubbles and refugee migration to Europe.

From 2018 to 2019, Anderson worked on "Three (or more) Ecologies." The title was made in reference to the writings of Felix Guattari. In this work, Anderson created a composition that included a variety of media, including documentary footage, music, and text, and explored "...the most recent iteration of my ongoing research into the seemingly perpetual conflict between ‘labor’ and ‘nature’ in the context of industrial development," according to Anderson.

Works

Three (or more) Ecologies (2018-2019) Unearthing Disaster I & II (2013 & 2015, respectively) The Sea between You and Me, short film (2016) The Sea Between You and Me (2016) Unearthing Disaster, 2013-2015 (with Angela Melitopoulos) Radio Schizoanalytique – Transmissions from the Fold (2015) The Refrain (2015), by Angela Melitopoulos in collaboration with Angela Anderson, Aya Hanabusa, and Maurizio Lazzarato

Exhibitions

Group Exhibition: Voices Outside the Echo Chamber (2016) Thessaloniki Biennale (2015) A Special Arrow was Shot through the Neck, David Roberts Art Foundation (2014) Berliner Herbst Salon (2013)